but I noticed you didn't say you were being promoted inside your company
low-level mid-management position
You can assume what you want. I do not have to prove my worth to you because it doesn't fit in your frame of reference. You may feel I should bring out all my reference and offered opportunities to make my point and have more credibility to you yet that's a waste of time on my part and yours. Rest assured, my employers take very well care of me and appreciate my effort to achieve our common goals instead of selling out for purely money and status.
Apparently, you are either a dumbass, a liar, or both.
You may disagree, ok. But starting to insult a person because his views are different, comes from another background or culture speaks much in your disadvantage. I hope you'll never be in charge of international relations.
Find another job if you cannot work with your boss. If you want to ever be "management" and you find your boss "an idiot". Well, then you're not cut out to be management or certainly not in that firm. Sitting around smoothtalking waiting for a promotion from someone who you think is an idiot? right..
And since impressing the boss is the only way to get promoted people with your attitude will never be management.
That wont make you management. It makes you a suckup who's running after a dangling carrot without charisma and reliability: you'll just agree when sometimes you have to disagree with your boss and let him know why. Who constantly wonders why there aren't offers for promotion and sit waiting while serving "the master". bah. Then resorting to passive agressiveness because you feel you deserve a promotion yet cannot deliver?
I've gotten many management position offers, being 26, in international companies. Not by sucking up, but by getting things done, going outside of my "safety zone" or unexepectedly pulling projects straight. (I'm a consultant software developer)
I'm too young for management, and I like to code more then management. Yet sucking up or "pleasing" the master isn't the way to go. I've been in such a firm before where that was expected. I wouldn't last a day anymore and would refuse projects for firms like that.
I regurlary see an ad in the papers for a "Skilled calculator", always from the same firm.
It seems to me, they were too progressive and now realized their mistake.
They used to ship these for free from MS HQ, even shipping was free. (I still have these "security updates" CDroms laying around. Got an invoice of 0 USD)
At the moment they seem to charge 8 (Offline SP2 CDrom). If you feel thats too much, download teh redistributable, burn it to cdrom or make a slipstreamed XP if you have to do alot of installations.
Do you trust a random guy "patching" your system? I don't.
I remember the cries "OH no! Windows sux because of running as an administrator. That's why we have virii!".
Now we're stuck with annoying popups. If I want to perform a "ipconfig/release", I have to create a shortcut to cmd, right-click and "run as Administrator" to be able to do that task.
"Oh no! Windows users are too stupid to protect themselves from hackers and spyware!", so now we have by default this "spyware remover", running on the background, doing most of the time nothing but hogging up memory.
"But they're so stupid, they install everything in their email attachments! YOu cannot trust the internets!", so now I have to "allow" whenever I click a program installation.
After all the criticism, most "features implemented", you now say "yeah, that's cool. But it was better before, when I had all these remarks."
I dislike working with Vista, it's counterproductive, when it should be more productive, and makes me feel less in control of what's going on in my PC; if something hangs, I haven't gotten the slightest clue. "Which obscure process now is behaving badly? Just when I reboot I get a "check for a sollution online", so halfly sell my soul to MS raping my bandwidth sending the dumpfiles to get a "no currently known sollution.".
The seem to have listened to all this whining, and those whining the hardest seem to have been the most hardcore PC user; "oh no, I don't like to spend all this time in managing my PC! Do it for me!" But when they do "ANTI TRUST!" or whatever they come up with. Pounding their chest to distinguish themselves from the "illiterate computer users who need to be protected for themselves on the internets", yet ending up with the same sollution being frustrated they've gotten what they asked for.
In the end, it's still Microsoft. Their implementations will still suck, they'll still have talented people -wherever you can see that or not- who are motivated in what they do (I cannot believe a programmer or project manager is thinking how to fuck you over best, or make the most money. They are motivated to "make a difference", just like many people inhere.)
And yes, most of their products suck, I don't like their marketting strategy. That doesn't change the fact there are geeks working there.
Vista was marketted as "the built from scratch", but it also required to exceed the expectations of a "next generation OS". You can't start over with "DOS Aero" and expect people to wait another 10 years for Web 2.0-like GUI.
Stop whining, if you want perfect software, play Duke Nukem Forever. It's been perfect for years now:)
Thank god for opensource.
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I've done it again
By "it", you mean "proved I have nothing worthwhile to do with my time other then sitting here, waiting for a new slashdot post. I'm even too inept to search other places for technology news or to do something significant with my life that I'll one day appear on slashdot in a duped article"?
We're floating in a big not-so-empty void. I'm 25, and still if I look up at the skies, or feel the sun on my skin I feel frustratingly inable to "reach to touch the stars". I try to closely follow NASA's projects, my day isn't complete without the Astronomy Picture of the day filling me with childish wonder about the world and reality we live in. The universe is magnificent, at least what we get to see from it thusfar, and there's so much more to be learned and seen.
It's hard to understand there are people who never look up and think "fuck yea, that's some cool stuff" but rather get lost in the futilities of life. Why wouldn't it be worth it? It's imperative for humankind, and it can guide a whole global population to reach further. But I guess CGI and fast snappy video's and imagery are more of interest for a whole lot of people.
What did space exploration brought us? Technology, inspiration for generations to excell and do what noone has achieved before. If you argue it has been a big expense, it's created a global market of Information Technology, and has brought people closer together. Partly because of the technological competition with Russia. Some big nations should get together and play game again, opposed to using some third world people as cannon-meat. Bring some mutual innovation and boost technological development instead of these vague "scientist have found that x but there will be y years before we can even think about practical applications or bring it to the consumer market"-bs.
There's this picture circulating with a guy sitting in a chair with some joysticks, wearing a dress, two breast-vacuum pumps wearing a Head Mounted display with the appropriate caption. Too bad I can't find it to illustrate the possibilities wish such an device.
There's a lot of silly property rights nonsense tied to the institution of marriage ingrained in our law structure
These were in place to protect mostly females in a male-dominated and run society and relied on their "provider". Now they appear silly as women are more "free fought", yet they still enjoy the same protection and rights as decades ago put in place to secure their lives. It's called "tradition". It's why there are alot of silly laws. They once made alot of sense, but didn't evolve with the fast evolving society.
According to that documentary, there already were "electric charge stations" all over the USA, until someone decided they didn't want to produce those cars anymore.
So there are billions spend in both manhours and cold hard cash to find extraterrestrial life, unsuccessfully. Now suddendly there's a guy who thinks "hey, why passively listen. Lets actively send out some signals straight to some specific starsystems!" And suddenly the scientific community is freaking; "OMG! Lets not do that! What if they exterminate us!"
What do those "some scientists" know more then we do?
but seriously, does anyone think the US government, the CIA or the Vatican would be stupid enough to get caught if they actually wanted to influence a wikipedia article
Yes. You've seen too many movies.
No, there's no need for sources, you'll have to take my word for it.
I've never came across "Yahoo! answers", but what's the difference between that and a forum somewhere in a desolate place?
It reminds me at some bar, where I've never been other then in my imagination, in a inbred town where the town wiseman explains how the stars are actually firework that was shot too high while everyone nods enlightened.
Slashdot Mirror
[shifty eyes] ... that they have made public.
I was called Swatch internet time and it flopped.
You can assume what you want. I do not have to prove my worth to you because it doesn't fit in your frame of reference. You may feel I should bring out all my reference and offered opportunities to make my point and have more credibility to you yet that's a waste of time on my part and yours. Rest assured, my employers take very well care of me and appreciate my effort to achieve our common goals instead of selling out for purely money and status.
You may disagree, ok. But starting to insult a person because his views are different, comes from another background or culture speaks much in your disadvantage. I hope you'll never be in charge of international relations.
Find another job if you cannot work with your boss. If you want to ever be "management" and you find your boss "an idiot". Well, then you're not cut out to be management or certainly not in that firm. Sitting around smoothtalking waiting for a promotion from someone who you think is an idiot? right..
That wont make you management. It makes you a suckup who's running after a dangling carrot without charisma and reliability: you'll just agree when sometimes you have to disagree with your boss and let him know why. Who constantly wonders why there aren't offers for promotion and sit waiting while serving "the master". bah. Then resorting to passive agressiveness because you feel you deserve a promotion yet cannot deliver?I've gotten many management position offers, being 26, in international companies. Not by sucking up, but by getting things done, going outside of my "safety zone" or unexepectedly pulling projects straight. (I'm a consultant software developer)
I'm too young for management, and I like to code more then management. Yet sucking up or "pleasing" the master isn't the way to go. I've been in such a firm before where that was expected. I wouldn't last a day anymore and would refuse projects for firms like that.
And as well:
"We expect certain parts of the spacecraft to reach 2 degrees Celsius pretty soon," said Richard Marsden, ESA project scientist and mission manage.
You can feel "American pride", but it makes you look stupid when it's misplaced.Succcessful sex addicts at that. This is slashdot.
That's the thing. Not everyone is playing WoW. It's natural selection at its finest.
Maybe it's a ploy to get people with addictive behaviours filtered out of the gene pool ;)
I regurlary see an ad in the papers for a "Skilled calculator", always from the same firm. It seems to me, they were too progressive and now realized their mistake.
They used to ship these for free from MS HQ, even shipping was free. (I still have these "security updates" CDroms laying around. Got an invoice of 0 USD)
At the moment they seem to charge 8 (Offline SP2 CDrom). If you feel thats too much, download teh redistributable, burn it to cdrom or make a slipstreamed XP if you have to do alot of installations.
Do you trust a random guy "patching" your system? I don't.
I remember the cries "OH no! Windows sux because of running as an administrator. That's why we have virii!". Now we're stuck with annoying popups. If I want to perform a "ipconfig /release", I have to create a shortcut to cmd, right-click and "run as Administrator" to be able to do that task.
"Oh no! Windows users are too stupid to protect themselves from hackers and spyware!", so now we have by default this "spyware remover", running on the background, doing most of the time nothing but hogging up memory.
"But they're so stupid, they install everything in their email attachments! YOu cannot trust the internets!", so now I have to "allow" whenever I click a program installation.
After all the criticism, most "features implemented", you now say "yeah, that's cool. But it was better before, when I had all these remarks."
I dislike working with Vista, it's counterproductive, when it should be more productive, and makes me feel less in control of what's going on in my PC; if something hangs, I haven't gotten the slightest clue. "Which obscure process now is behaving badly? Just when I reboot I get a "check for a sollution online", so halfly sell my soul to MS raping my bandwidth sending the dumpfiles to get a "no currently known sollution.".
The seem to have listened to all this whining, and those whining the hardest seem to have been the most hardcore PC user; "oh no, I don't like to spend all this time in managing my PC! Do it for me!" But when they do "ANTI TRUST!" or whatever they come up with. Pounding their chest to distinguish themselves from the "illiterate computer users who need to be protected for themselves on the internets", yet ending up with the same sollution being frustrated they've gotten what they asked for.
In the end, it's still Microsoft. Their implementations will still suck, they'll still have talented people -wherever you can see that or not- who are motivated in what they do (I cannot believe a programmer or project manager is thinking how to fuck you over best, or make the most money. They are motivated to "make a difference", just like many people inhere.)
And yes, most of their products suck, I don't like their marketting strategy. That doesn't change the fact there are geeks working there.
Vista was marketted as "the built from scratch", but it also required to exceed the expectations of a "next generation OS". You can't start over with "DOS Aero" and expect people to wait another 10 years for Web 2.0-like GUI.
Stop whining, if you want perfect software, play Duke Nukem Forever. It's been perfect for years nowThank god for opensource.
By "it", you mean "proved I have nothing worthwhile to do with my time other then sitting here, waiting for a new slashdot post. I'm even too inept to search other places for technology news or to do something significant with my life that I'll one day appear on slashdot in a duped article"?
Just think about mailinator.com and simular anti-spam services.
Are you that guy with the sign; "Will code HTML for food"?
We're floating in a big not-so-empty void. I'm 25, and still if I look up at the skies, or feel the sun on my skin I feel frustratingly inable to "reach to touch the stars". I try to closely follow NASA's projects, my day isn't complete without the Astronomy Picture of the day filling me with childish wonder about the world and reality we live in. The universe is magnificent, at least what we get to see from it thusfar, and there's so much more to be learned and seen.
It's hard to understand there are people who never look up and think "fuck yea, that's some cool stuff" but rather get lost in the futilities of life. Why wouldn't it be worth it? It's imperative for humankind, and it can guide a whole global population to reach further. But I guess CGI and fast snappy video's and imagery are more of interest for a whole lot of people.
What did space exploration brought us? Technology, inspiration for generations to excell and do what noone has achieved before. If you argue it has been a big expense, it's created a global market of Information Technology, and has brought people closer together. Partly because of the technological competition with Russia. Some big nations should get together and play game again, opposed to using some third world people as cannon-meat. Bring some mutual innovation and boost technological development instead of these vague "scientist have found that x but there will be y years before we can even think about practical applications or bring it to the consumer market"-bs.
That's the one...
There's this picture circulating with a guy sitting in a chair with some joysticks, wearing a dress, two breast-vacuum pumps wearing a Head Mounted display with the appropriate caption. Too bad I can't find it to illustrate the possibilities wish such an device.
These were in place to protect mostly females in a male-dominated and run society and relied on their "provider". Now they appear silly as women are more "free fought", yet they still enjoy the same protection and rights as decades ago put in place to secure their lives. It's called "tradition". It's why there are alot of silly laws. They once made alot of sense, but didn't evolve with the fast evolving society.
Who associates "intuition", "study" and "learning" with guns?
You must be one of these American macho cowboys. (I'm one of these pantsy Europeans)
I'd expect a car-analogy for slashdot, or a reference to absense of sexual activity and masturbation.
Please go out and find Who killed the electrical car
According to that documentary, there already were "electric charge stations" all over the USA, until someone decided they didn't want to produce those cars anymore.
finally have a place to apply.
I wasn't talking about SETI alone. You do your research, sir.
So there are billions spend in both manhours and cold hard cash to find extraterrestrial life, unsuccessfully. Now suddendly there's a guy who thinks "hey, why passively listen. Lets actively send out some signals straight to some specific starsystems!"
And suddenly the scientific community is freaking; "OMG! Lets not do that! What if they exterminate us!"
What do those "some scientists" know more then we do?
Yes. You've seen too many movies.
No, there's no need for sources, you'll have to take my word for it.
(because I say so.)
Anyone can make the world keep time for them. Only real men can make the sun keep it for them.
as a "information" site.
I've never came across "Yahoo! answers", but what's the difference between that and a forum somewhere in a desolate place?
It reminds me at some bar, where I've never been other then in my imagination, in a inbred town where the town wiseman explains how the stars are actually firework that was shot too high while everyone nods enlightened.